As of now, when we need sipX to execute something with root permissions,
the standard trick is to write a C wrapper program that gets setuid
root. A couple of examples of such tasks are - changing the system time
and date, and executing system updates.
It works, but it's clunky and will result in more clunky wrapper
programs as we add more functionality.
A friend of mine who works on the Fedora project linked me to a tool
that might be a much better approach, called Oddjob:
http://people.redhat.com/nalin/oddjob/oddjob.html
Oddjob is a daemon that executes privileged tasks on behalf of
unprivileged applications. You communicate with it using D-Bus.
This might be something we want to integrate with sipX. Let me know your
thoughts...
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